When will you use what you learn in a WGSS class? ALWAYS.

Making the Invisible Visible

If you think nobody needs a women’s and gender studies class, you need a women’s and gender studies class.

By Anna Diamond

The bane of professors’ existence—especially calculus professors—is the frequently asked question: “When am I ever going to use this again?” If we rank courses on usefulness, one unexpected class might well be the most relevant one a college student can take: women’s and gender studies. For this class, the answer to that often posed question is: “Always!”

Just as you would take a biology or economics course to help you comprehend the living or financial world around you, women’s and gender studies provides you with the tools to understand the explicit and implicit roles that gender plays in everyone’s life every day. By exploring the complexities of gender—from history, theory, and current events—we begin to understand gender’s powerful effect and its inherently mutable nature. These courses draw gender out; name it; dissect it; and, most importantly, encourage students tochallenge what they thought they knew. Read More